Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.